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Abstract: Signal processing makes extensive use of point estimators and accompanying error bounds. These work well up until the likelihood function has two or more ...

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Abstract: Sampling process is one of the most important part in acquiring information in a measurement system. This article presents an analysis of the sampling of a measured signal that originally ...

Probability is an essential part of casino games and can be applied to determine the likelihood of winning and losing. It may sound trivial to regular gamers, and the urge to just get on and play is ...

ABSTRACT: Chronic starvation of the communities on the water invested projects is due to the partial or unfinished project which leads to the closure or non-sustainable water projects. The closure or ...

As Americans await the presidential election results, many are looking to the polls for clues. A poll’s margin of error describes how close a survey result can ...

Conducting a poll isn’t an exact science. The process is susceptible to lots of common problems and baked-in biases — more than just the “margin of error.” By ...